Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1874 — Remington Items. [ARTICLE]

Remington Items.

Downing’s press has commenced baling hay. Mike Cook shipped four car loads of cattle last week. Remington Lodge No. 843,1. O. G. T., meets every Thursday evening. The weekly prayermeeting of the M. E. Church has been changed from Thursday evening to Wednesday evening. B. M. Donnelly talks of visiting Texas this fall, and so does his fathen notwithstanding the Journal to the contrary. A recent picnic in that neighborhood was enlivened by two fights ,and drunks too numerous to mention; and there was none to molest, nor to make them afraid. Some members of the Brass Band talk of abandoning that organization, unless a baritone, an alto, a bass drum atul clashing cymbals can be added for them to blow. A female ghost Is said to be giving diurnal matinees, three miles west of Remington. Several brave lads have shot at her a number of times with .no perceptible effect. Sixteen carloads of cattle (320 head) were recently shipped from Remington to Eastern markets. Messrs. Nation & Haskett will ship seventyseven ear loads of cattle (1,540 head) this season. A great many people, says the Journal. have an idea that watermelons are unhealthy, but this is a mistake; there is nothing more soothing, cooling and healthy than a good ripe watermelon. Did Brother Johnson ever try a cucumber cobler? Kemington public schools will be opened about the first of -October Professor W. W. Cole; Jr., of Illinois, is to be Principal; Miss Mary Jones and Miss Agnes Nelson, teachers of the Intermediate departments; and Miss Fannie Jouveunt, Primary teacher.